avoirdupois

av·oir·du·pois  (vr-d-poiz)

n.

1. Abbr. av. or avdp. Avoirdupois weight.

2. Informal Weight or heaviness, especially of a person.

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[Middle English avoir de pois, commodities sold by weight, alteration of Old French aveir de peis, goods of weight : aveir, avoir, to have (from Latin habre; see able) + de, of (from Latin d, from; see de-) + peis, pois, weight (from Vulgar Latin *psum, from Latin pnsum, past participle of pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots).]

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avoirdupois or avoirdupois weight [av-er-de-poise]

Noun

a system of weights based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces [Old French aver de peis goods of weight]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	avoirdupois - a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) avoirdupois weight system of weights, weight - a system of units used to express the weight of something avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
	2.	avoirdupois - excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" fatness, blubber, fat bodily property - an attribute of the body adiposeness, adiposity, fattiness - having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity" abdominousness, paunchiness - the bodily property of a protruding belly greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness - consisting of or covered with oil corpulency, fleshiness, obesity - more than average fatness steatopygia - an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks